2005 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'05) Model-Based Failure Analysis of Journaling File Systems Yokohama, Japan June 28-July 01 ISBN: 0-7695-2282-3
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/DSN.2005.65
We propose a novel method to measure the robustness of journaling file systems under disk write failures. In our approach, we build models of how journaling file systems order disk writes under different journaling modes and use these models to inject write failures during file system updates. Using our technique, we analyze if journaling file systems maintain on-disk consistency in the presence of disk write failures. We apply our technique to three important Linux journaling file systems: ext3, Reiserfs, and IBM JFS. From our analysis, we identify several design flaws and correctness bugs in these file systems, which can cause serious file system errors ranging from data corruption to unmountable file systems.
Citation:
Vijayan Prabhakaran, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, "Model-Based Failure Analysis of Journaling File Systems," dsn, pp.802-811, 2005 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'05), 2005 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||